Full Description
A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the Alphabet Go to War is Lesyk Panasiuk's remarkable account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, during the apex of war and brutality at the hands of the Russian military. The result is a tremendous work that The Guardian describes as embodying "the idea of the rupture of language through the physical collapse of signs and lettering on buildings hit by missiles." This slim book bears great weight.
Contents
7 In the Hospital Rooms of My Country
9 Our Faces, Tossed about This Land
19 A Wartime Dream
21 Aubade
23 Empty Case
27 A Shoe Full of Water: A Diary of a Return
37 October
41 Music Underground
45 Russian Accordion
49 Reading instructions
53 Icon
55 Little Palm
59 Prayer to the Road
61 The Most Ordinary Day
63 Exhibit
65 Lightbulbs
67 Turbines of Hydroelectric Plants
71 Afterword by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris
83 Notes
86 About the Author & Translators
